Torrens University Australia’s Academic Board Members oversee the quality assurance of all Torrens’ academic activities, including the maintenance of high standards in teaching and scholarship.
| Role | Incumbent |
|---|---|
| Board Chair | Emeritus Professor David Wilmoth |
| Deputy Board Chair Pro-Vice Chancellor, Academic |
Professor Helmut Lueckenhausen |
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Alwyn Louw |
| Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research | Professor Kerry London |
| Pro Vice Chancellor, Business & Hospitality | Dr Greg Harper |
| Dean, Design & Creative Technology | Mieke Mcevey-Leppens |
| Dean, Health and Education | Professor Cath Rogers |
| Director Product Innovation Hub | Eoghan Hogan |
| Director, Quality | Fionna Scott-Milligan |
| Director, Student Services and Campus Operations | Lee Ushakoff |
| Program Director, Health Sciences | Timothy Trevail |
| Senior Learning Facilitator, Architecture, Art and Design | Melissa O’Brien |
| Lecturer, Business Administration | David Malovka |
| Student Member | Stephen Henry |
EMERITUS PROFESSOR DAVID WILMOTH
EXTERNAL MEMBER AND CHAIR
PPhD (U Calif at Berkeley), MTCP (U Syd), B Econ (Hons) (U Qld), FAICD
David Wilmoth is Director of Learning Cities International Pty Ltd, an advisory and project management company for education and urban development. He works with private, government and multilateral clients in the start-up and expansion of education institutions, institutional expansion, regulatory compliance and public-private partnership transactions, working in over thirty countries.
He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dean of Environmental Design and Construction and now Emeritus Professor of RMIT University. He was a long-standing member of the Academic Board and led the higher education sector, international development and other portfolios. He led the build-up of RMIT’s international student body and was foundation CEO of RMIT University Vietnam, now a major branch campus, along with campuses and partnership programs in many other countries.
He is a director of the Australia-Vietnam Education Promotion Association, which provides university scholarships to Australians of Vietnamese background, and a director of AFS Intercultural Programs Australia, part of the world’s largest program of secondary student exchange. He was a director and CEO of Monash International and Monash College, the university’s pathway provider, and chair of the board of Royal Children’s Hospital International and Melbourne’s Knowledge Precinct. He was President (Victoria) of the Australia-Africa Business Council.
David teaches a masters-level course in decision-making and governance at the University of New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. He has degrees in economics and planning from the Universities of Queensland, Sydney, and California at Berkeley, and graduate certificates in educational leadership and management from Harvard University and the University of Melbourne.